In the academic discipline of “Big History,” historians and thinkers attempt to draw the grand lines of human history. And it’s no wonder that Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” has become many people’s first encounter with …
Frankenstein on the shoulders of Gilgamesh – Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens” Læs mere »
Biologist and neurologist Robert Sapolsky’s project is astoundingly ambitious: He wants to try to map out why humans behave the way we do. And not unexpectedly, the answer is quite complex.
In the small German town of Halberstadt, a piece of music history unfolds: John Cage’s organ work “Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible)” is being performed – with a planned duration of 639 years.
Will Self’s novel “Great Apes” is both deeply unsettling and darkly hilarious – an uncomfortably precise satire on the nature of civilisation.
There are two kinds of extraordinary musical experiences: One is hearing something unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. The other is not being bored for a single moment. It’s rare that I can tick both boxes. But when David Thomas visited Jazzhouse in Copenhagen, I could.
Night after night, a man stands by his elevator with a suitcase, waiting for the secret police to take him away and punish him for his crimes.The man is the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, the setting is Stalin’s Soviet Union, and the crime is his music.
Michael Rother, Hans Lampe and Franz Bargmann took over Copenhagen’s Jazzhouse with “Krautrock” of the timeless and immediately captivating kind.
Today, most people think of the music video as appearing in the 1980s, gaining momentum with the rise of MTV, and at the very least being closely linked to the invention of videotape. However, the music video actually had a quirky predecessor named Scopitone—and it is quite a charming acquaintance.
I suddenly noticed that Konzerthaus Berlin hosted a work I never heard by a composer I admire: Steve Reich’s “video opera” Three Tales – the video part created by his wife Beryl Korot. The work interprets the development and failures …
Interview by Jacob Pertou. State of Mind is currently Kim Bonfils’ musical alter ego. As the first participant in a series of interviews with Danish musicians about their relationships with Tangerine Dream, I ask State of Mind aka Bonfils to tell us a little about how he relates to the band.